Still ten percent??
 

Just curious, I've been reading or hearing since long ago that the homosexual population in the world is around 10 percent. Is it still true?

It looks to me that it is more than 10%, buy maybe it's because now medias are far more open (and of course also people in general) about this topic so there are more gays "out" of the closet.

Of course this can be relative, since it should include an analysis like.. are you including bi? "ocasional" gays? just who have sex? or also those who fall in love with? etc..

Anyway, does anybody know about recent and reliable statistics?

"Occasional gays."

That made me laugh my ass off, dear. :laugh: Love that term!

I've heard that throughout time it has always been 10-25 percent, and i think it tends toward the higher number. Don't have a statistic site, though.

Who knows for sure and it really is impossible IMO to get an accurate number when you have people who will never admit it (due mostly to religious and social stigmatization) and then those who have group sex and get off with the same sex during it and then those who mess around on the side. I personally think everyone is just sexual and to draw lines is ridiculous. I mean what is masterbation - it certainly is not heterosexual sex. In fact, in some places, it is considered a very homo thing to do.

Yeah, I know, I couldn't find a better english word,

What I mean is people that sometimes do it (just sex), but I guess they really should be also bi. Of course you ask them and they deny it.,

I don't deny it. :lol:

I agree with what Jason said, though. He made good points.

Interesting point.
In Colombia there was an anonymous survey, I read few years ago. And there was a high increased number of "straight" men who admited they have at least one homo sex relationship, and enjoyed it. But I can't remember the %. I do remember I thought in Peru it would give the same % results

The Latino culture is esp. hard on gay people. I think it is the whole Machismo thing made severer by the Catholic guilt doctrine. I know more than one Latino who has multiple boy partners outside of his "perfectly happy" heterosexual marriage.

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Interestingly, Kinsey's study is probably still very applicable today. He really had a way of making people open up.

Yes, however it is changing. It is less hard than in the 70s or 80s. For example, when I was at college, it was unimaginable that a kid could visit a gay disco. Now many guys (18yo) have visited and they don't deny it (of course they say it was just for curious or for the music. But at leas they are not ashame it.
And there is more symptoms about it.

HA! I'm sure than even more than ten thousand.. ;)

:laugh: That burns my crawl just like "I'm str8 acting". WTF?!?!

It's not as bad as using the words "mangina" and "sh*t p*ssy." Ugh...

:nod: This is very true....in El Paso, TX there's this big gay culture - we call them the El Paso gay boys...they all look eerily alike and come from similar backgrounds (not ALL - I'm generalizing)....in many cases their mothers accept them - but their fathers not so much....or in some cases they are ostracized by their entire families.

My good friend Matthew is a good example...his father still doesn't know he's gay (I don't know HOW) - actually I think he does know - they make horrible remarks to him when he's home....and his family still talks to him and such - but if he makes any reference at all to being gay or anything gay they yell at him and make him feel like s**t - it's very sad...

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Well, take my high school graduating class....out of 40 boys, 4 of us are gay. 10% baby. :lol:

But you and J are right....it is hard to be accurate....10% is just a guess-timate.

Ha! The four that you know about. ;) :laugh:

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I was just pointing out the minimum percentage possible. :]

I have always believed (and will continue to believe) that there are no such things as homosexuality and heterosexuality. As Jason said on the other page, we're sexual by nature. Show me a "straight" person who has never had sexual feelings for a member of their own sex and I will sell you a bridge in Brooklyn. Sexual feelings of all sorts are natural, they don't need to be connotated as good or bad because of trivial things like religion and what society sees as the norm. If it feels good and it ain't illegal, have fun.

Actually, I think there are people who have never really had a sexual feeling towards their same sex. :shrug:

I honestly believe this. Friends think I am crazy that I say that I don't believe in sexual boundaries. I am "gay" because I do perfer men over women....my sexual drive is towards men. However, if I was attracted to a women, I'd go for it. I don't give up opportunities that could arise because I am gay. I guess I have been sucked into society's view of myself.

I don't (unless they're completely asexual). Anyone who says that they haven't is lying is through their teeth, IMO.

Exactly. I've been attracted to men, but not on the same level as I am towards women. Until recently, I never attempted to have any type of relationship with another man, but I'm not going to say 'You can't do this, pick one or the other.' If I feel a certain way, that's how I feel. No one has to be categorized as being this or that because it's the kind of thing that cannot be categorized.

I don't see it happening for me anytime soon....but the option is always there.....until I find the "one".

Finding someone sexy is a sexual feeling, how could it not be? If they didn't turn you on to some degree, you wouldn't find them sexy.

Just because you haven't or have no desire to sleep with a man, it doesn't mean that you don't have any sexual feelings for them. That kind of thinking is part of the problem with society and how it categorizes a "sexual feeling" as being one that means you want to jump into the sack with someone. I don't know how you define them, but that's not how I define them. :)

How can you presume that? And just because someone really likes someone that is the gender that they don't usually sleep with, doesn't mean that those feelings necessarily translate into sexual feelings. Hell, I've slept with a girl, but I don't really actively desire to sleep with a girl. And I don't think you can presume everyone who says that is "lying". I've known people who have no qualms with any kind of sexual boundaries, but still say things like "well, there is no reason I wouldn't do it, I've just never had the desire to do it" :wavey:

Yeah, I don't call it a sexual feeling if you don't have some kind of desire to share sex with them. I call it "love" or "intense like" or "good friendship" or something. :shrug:

So, you've slept with a girl, but because you you don't actively desire to sleep with them, that translates into you never having had sexual feelings for one? :confused:

Everyone has some sort of sexual feeling regarding both sexes, it's human nature and I'll believe it until I die.

I call it being horny :shrug:

By that line of thinking, we can say that things like clothing and scents aren't sexy. If it turns you on in the least, it's a sexual feeling in my eyes. But we're all different in that realm, I suppose.

And horniness is a sexual feeling.

I guess i wouldn't call it a sexual feeling, if you don't want to have sex with them. And if you do want to have sex with them, then i call it a sexual feeling. And I think that some people may not have ever had a sexual feeling for their same sex. And i would never keep it so black and white as to say that it is outside the realm of possibility that not everyone on the planet has bisexual feelings. Obviously, I think most people do. But i would never say everyone does, and if they don't admit it, that they're in denial. :D